1. Use healthy fats only (oils from plants), no animal fats, and no trans-fats.
2. Minimize the use of products that contain saturated fat (for example, cheese or lunchmeat).
3. Use whole grains instead of refined ones.
4. Don’t add sugar or use products with added sugar (including honey, molasses, maple syrup, corn syrup, and dried cane juice). Avoid artificial sweeteners. Fruits, fresh or dried, and fruit juice concentrates (used sparingly) can sweeten a recipe.
5. Use the Harvard Healthy Eating Pyramid for inspiration.

• The recipe must be your own creation.
• Name the category of your recipe – for example, "Lunch Box Recipe" or "After-School Snack."
• Carefully list the ingredients and quantities, followed by the steps in the process of preparing it.
• Send your recipe by June 30, 2004, to:

  What’s Cooking?
  ODYSSEY
  30 Grove Street, Suite C
  Peterborough, NH 03458
  
  Or, submit online!
  
  

• Dr. Lilian Cheung has, with writer Mavis Jukes, coauthored a book for adolescent girls titled Be Healthy! It’s a Girl Thing: Food, Fitness, and Feeling Great that has kid-specific information about eating right and exercising safely.
• She also oversees the Harvard Nutrition Department’s nutrition Web site, the Nutrition Source, at www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource. Here you’ll find expanded explanations of all the topics in this contest’s accompanying article.
• For healthy eating pyramids based on Asian, Latin American, Mediterranean, and vegetarian diets, see www.oldwayspt.org/pyramids/pyramids.html.

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